A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp
A clean and minimal youtube frontend, without all the ads and whistles - christian-fei/my-yt
A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp launched on March 15, 2025 with 319 votes, #110 of 7,215 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
In plain words
A personal YouTube frontend built on yt-dlp, this tool lets users access YouTube content through a custom interface. It's designed for people who want an alternative way to watch and download videos from YouTube. The project is open source and available on GitHub, making it suitable for developers and power users interested in self-hosting their own YouTube experience or exploring alternative frontends.
written from the facts on this page · September 2026
From the sources
A clean and minimal youtube frontend supported by yt-dlp, and optionally your local AI model, to make your youtube experience local, mindful and succint. The app will fetch the latest videos from your subscribed channels and display them in chronological order. Your subscriptions will be scraped from youtube every 30 minutes. No API key needed. Then you can download a video to watch it locally. If you host my-yt on your local network you can watch videos on all your devices. If you want, the app can also generate a summary of the video content using your local AI model or hosted provider. Additionally, in the settings page you can set the video quality of the downloaded videos, clean up…from github.com
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